Let All You Do Be Done In Love

Well, it’s been a couple weeks since the laundry room reveal and I’m still smitten! I actually haven’t dreaded doing the laundry at ALL and it’s so much easier to get to things that are being stored in there now! (Win, Win, BIG TIME WIN!)

Laundry Room Makeover for $100

Just in case you missed the posts, I took part in the $100 Room Challenge this January (along with 40 other bloggers). Check out the progress we made on the laundry room in the posts here: before pics, week 2, week 3, reveal. While looking at those, be sure to check out some of the other blogs that participated (you will find the links at the end of the posts). I have loved reading through them! This is such a great idea that Erin at Lemons, Lavender, & Laundry came up with! 

I got pretty much everything done with this room that I had wanted to accomplish, BUT when we were working on this space we ended up having some leftover wood. And if you know me, that means a project is on the horizon. Typically not just any project, but a sign. 

Laundry Room Sign

I LOVE signs.

I love fonts. I love quotes. I love song lyrics. Signs basically just wrap those things all together and put them in a little hang-able medley of cuteness. 

Signs make me smile. And isn’t that the whole goal for the things you have in your home? (I mean, the trash can doesn’t exactly make me smile, but you get what I’m trying to say….) 

I love looking at textual art (ahem…that’s the fancy term for signs). BUT, looking at said “art” doesn’t typically lead to buying. Have you seen the price tags on some of those suckers? So, what’s a gal to do? 

Make one herself.

And you know what? That’s even BETTER because then you are no longer at the mercy of what Home Goods, Hobby Lobby, and Target have. If you want a sign from a Jane Austen book, BAM, you go ahead and quote Miss Austen, sister! Feeling a David Bowie song? Rock those “Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes”. Read a verse in the Bible and it really spoke to your heart? Put it on a sign!

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Make a 1 Corinthians 16:14 Sign

This project kind of went about that way. I was debating between two signs. The alternative would have read: “Laundry today or naked tomorrow”, but I decided on something a bit more “subdued”. (I’m all for the humorous signs- remember the sign I have here?) BUT I thought it would be good to have something on the wall that would remind me to check my attitude about doing the laundry. (Shocker Alert: it’s not my favorite household task. I mean, the nerve of those SAME pesky clothes! They just keep getting dirty.) So, even though my squeaky clean, beautiful new laundry room is creating a euphoric feeling for me right now, I’m pretty sure there will be a time when I will be grumbling about the laundry (at least in my head). Seeing the quote from 1 Corinthians 16:14 (hopefully) will get my attitude back on track. The laundry might not be thrilling, but I can do it and serve my family with a joyful heart. 

Easy DIY for Laundry Room Sign

This came together very easily. I just printed out the template (the link is in the graphic at the end of the post), scribbled on the back,traced the letters, and then used a paint pen. 

Use this DIY Sign Method! It’s Foolproof! 

I go through the exact “Cheater Method” I use in detail in this post here. Check it out! 

Another Easy Idea for Printables & Signs

Interested in the wall art that’s just below the sign? 

Those are cork placemats from IKEA. (You know, the place I think of in my head when Tiffany sings, “Ooh baby do ya know what that’s worth? Ooh heaven is a place on earth”…..yep, IKEA! Bwahaha!) 

I had them on hand already, but a 4 pack will cost you $4.99. (You can also find similar ones here.)

Hang Cork Placemats for Wall Art

We used 3 of the place mats and a piece of primed trim we had in our shed. All that had to be done was nailing them up using our handy dandy nail gun (great Black Friday find with my mom), and hot gluing some clothespins I pilfered from the canister on the new counter top! 

Those hymn cards are from Magnolia (nope, I haven’t been to Waco yet, they were a great Christmas gift I got to pick out with a gift card. Joanna Gaines actually let me personally peruse Magnolia and buy some things online! (Wait? It’s a public domain? Everyone can shop there? And here I thought we were BFFs!)

Just being silly, but aren’t the hymn cards pretty? I think the colors and beautiful font (I already confessed my love of fonts) are perfect for in here. (And since I have extra cards, you will probably see them show up in other places around the house soon too!) 

Free “Let all you do be done in love” Printable

If you want to have “Let all you do be done in love” up in your home, but don’t have time to make your own sign, I also created a ready-made printable! 

I still might make a “laundry today or naked tomorrow” sign at some point…. Because some days, that is the only motivation for actually doing the laundry. (You’ve heard of “FOMO”-fear of missing out- this would be “FOBN”-fear of being naked….) What words would you hang up?